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English: Arms of Dennis of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, sculpted escutcheon of eight quarters above front door of Dodd's Farm, Pucklechurch, former dower house of Siston Court, seat of the Dennis family. See full view Since 1906 re-named Dennisworth Farm. The Dennis family of Pucklechurch was a junior branch of the Denys/Dennis family of adjacent Siston. Quarterings as The first seven quarters are as stated in Maclean, Sir John & Heane, W.C., (Eds.), The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as Deputies to William Camden Clarenceux King of Arms, etc, London, 1885, p.49 (with blazons corrected). The 8th quarter added (which replaced a repeat of quarter 1) is for Still (Sable gouttée d'eau argent, three roses of the last seeded or barbed vert), being the arms of Nathaniel Still (son of John Still (c.1543-1607/8), Bishop of Bath and Wells), whose daughter and co-heiress Mary Still was the wife of John Dennis (1616-1660) of Pucklechurch, as is recorded on a mural monument of the family in Pucklechurch Church, also showing the arms of Still (see . These arms quartering Still are thus those of Mary Still's eldest son William Dennis (1644-1701) of Pucklechurch (whose mural monument is in Pucklechurch Church), Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1689, who married Dorothy Cotton, a daughter of Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1621-1702), of Conington in the County of Huntingdon.

Quarters:

• 1: Gules, three leopard's faces or jessant-de-lys azure over all a bend engrailed of the third (Denys of Siston)
• 2: Argent, a raven proper a bordure sable bezantée (Corbet of Siston)
• 3: Argent, on a chief gules three bezants (Russell of Dyrham & Kingston Russell)
• 4: Argent, four fusils conjoined in fess gules (Newmarch, feudal baron of North Cadbury, a Russell heiress)
• 5: Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules (Gorges (modern), a Russell heiress)
• 6: Argent, on a bend gules three martlets or (Danvers of Calthorpe, Oxfordshire; Sir William Denys's mother was Agnes Danvers. Arms of Danvers, being the arms of their ancestor Brancestre/Brancaster of Calthorpe, Oxfordshire: (MacNamara, F.N., Memorials of the Danvers Family, London, 1895, pp.84, 87-8, 123, 165[1]) Alternatively: Ermine, on a bend gules three martlets or winged vert. These were adopted as "modern arms" in place of his "ancient" paternal arms by John Danvers (died 1449) of Calthorpe, near Banbury and of Prescote in the parish of Cropredy, both in Oxfordshire served four times as a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, in 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435, whose mother was Agnes Brancestre, daughter and heiress of John Brancestre of Calthorpe. His descendants (including the Danvers baronets and the Earl of Danby) reverted to Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or)
• 7: Gules, two bars or in chief two buck's heads cabossed of the second (Langley, an heiress of Danvers. Source: MacNamara, Memorials of the Danvers Family, pp.196-200[2]. The Langley family were hereditary keepers of Whichwood Forest. Their heir was Simon Verney(d.1368)whose brother was William Verney of Byfield, father of Alice Verney, 1st. wife of John Danvers. The de Langley family held the manor of Shipton, Oxfordshire, and Richard Lee in his "Gleanings" of 1574 states that these arms of Gules, 2 bars or in chief 2 buck's heads cabossed of the 2nd were visible in a stained glass window with a tomb under it. The buck's heads seem to be a reference to the Langley office of forester of Whichwood.
• 8: Sable gouttée d'eau argent, three roses of the last seeded or barbed vert (Still)